Background: Myopia or nearsightedness may be caused by various factors including habit factor. Myopia is a refractive disorder of the eye are most common founds in younger age groups, including students and the university students because at the age of schooling a person is more likely to do close work with more often.
Objective: To know how the relationship between habits during seeing something with myopia among FK USU university students class year 2007-2009.
Methods: This technique uses proporsive sampling where the sample population was taken from the sample population who had previously been known characteristics or properties. Traits that are intended student group that myopia and non myopia. The result of calculation to determine the required minimum number of respondents with 90% confidence interval fulfilled as much as 96 (7.12%) respondents in this study.
Results: The respondents consist of 42.7% men and 57.3% female respondents. Myopia is more often found in the female sex (52.7% of the total female respondents) compared to male respondents (46.3% of total male respondents). Respondents who have myopia severity of mild myopia have the highest percentage, 72.9% (35 of 48 myopic respondents). Also obtained the first occurrence of myopia at the age between 5-20 years had the highest percentage, 93.7% and obtained a history of gradually increasing severity of myopia has the highest percentage, 81.2% among respondents myopia.
Conclusion: Based on Fisher's Exact Test using restriction value (α = 0.10), the results of this study indicate there is no relationship between habits during seeing something with myopia among FK USU university students class year 2007-2009.
Recommendation: Other researchers are encouraged to continue this research by increasing the number of samples included children under the age of schooling, children in school age, the age group above 40 and 60 years. Other researchers can also add other variables such as genetic factors, diseases, medications, and so forth.